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An Indian man has been living in a tree for 50 years after having a fight with his wife.

A man in India's eastern Orissa state has been living in a tree for the past 50 years following a quarrel with his wife.

Gayadhar Parida, 83, who lives in a tree in a village 240km north of the state capital Bhubaneshwar, has repeatedly turned down pleas by his wife and children to return home, a report said yesterday.

And as a number of other bloggers have noted

A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love, a news report said Tuesday.

It was Muhamad Noor Che Musa's first marriage and his wife's 21st, according to The Star newspaper, which cited a report in the Malay-language Harian Metro tabloid.

And if one's never too old to get married, they may never be too old to have a child

A woman who will become one of Britain's oldest mothers when she gives birth at 63 on Thursday defended her right to be an older parent.

Patricia Rashbrook, a child psychiatrist from Lewes, south of London, has two grown children from a previous marriage but recently remarried and underwent fertility treatment.

She is due to give birth in two months.

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Posted by SoccerDad at May 5, 2006 4:08 AM